Deputy PM: No permissions needed for popular songs
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to update its legal documents and regulations on musical performance.
Singer Trong Tan, who specialises in performing revolutionary songs. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has askedthe Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to update its legal documents andregulations on musical performance.
The Deputy PM said that already popular songs that have no wordsagainst traditional culture values and do not go against national interestshould not need any permission for public performance, regardless of when andwhere they were composed.
Dam also asked the ministry to enhance its management capabilitiesover its Performing Arts Department, which recently issued some unpopularregulations that had to be retracted.
In the past few months, the department’s decisions to ban a numberof songs composed before 1975 or after 1975 by overseas Vietnamese stirredconfusions among the public.
The department had issued a decision to ban five songs, namely Canh Thiep Dau Xuan (Spring Greeting Card, by Le Dinh& Minh Ky), Rung Xua (The Old Forest by Lam Phuong), Chuyen Buon Ngay Xuan (Sad Story in a Spring Day byLam Phuong), Dung Goi Anh BangChu (Don’t Call Me“Uncle” by Dien An) and ConDuong Xua Em Di (Your OldPath by Chau Ky and Ho Dinh Phuong).
The reason for ban was that performers changed original lyrics orlisted the wrong authors’ names.
The department then announced a list of more than 2,500 songs thatcan be performed in public. However, the list does not contain historic songsby composer Van Cao, including TienQuan Ca (Marching Song) thatis now the national anthem, TruongCa Song Lo (Lo River Epic)and Tien Ve Hanoi (Marching to Hanoi).
The popular song NoiVong Tay Lon (Great Circleof Vietnam) by composer Trinh Cong Son was not listed, either.
On May 20, the department added300 songs to the list on its website. However, there now is a misunderstandingamong audiences that the 300 songs are permitted to be performed again after aprevious ban.
The department has also sent apress release saying that it will continue to update the list in order tosimplify administrative procedures and facilitate agencies and individuals touse the songs.
Trong Tan, a singer specialisingin patriotic songs, said that the 300-song update was necessary. “But the waythat the department dealt with the matter was not proper. It caused inevitablemisunderstanding,” he said.-VNA
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Singer Trong Tan, who specialises in performing revolutionary songs. (Photo: VNA) 
